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Steve Fleming’s watercolor class

I enrolled in a watercolor class at The Art League last winter precisely because I know nothing about watercolor.  I have found that studying art in unfamiliar mediums helps me to see the familiar more clearly — that is to say, studying watercolor helps me to solve problems that I come across in, say, photography….

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Composition & Design Fundamentals with Lisa Semerad

Lisa Semerad magnificently explodes my mind with her art instruction prowess. I love her class. This week, our assignment was to create a continuous, organic shape in a square, rectangle and circle that: 1. does not touch the edges 2. runs off two different sides once 3. runs off three different sides once 4. runs…

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beginning figure drawing with Lisa Semerad

I didn’t take any photography workshops in 2008. Instead, I enrolled in a figure drawing class at The Art League mostly as a tag-along to my bona-fide artist friend Suzanne. (We didn’t know one another in Tucson, but she was an art major at the University of Arizona during the years that I was in…

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